Developing Leaders in Mexico
About The Program In Mexico
With a desire to provide scholarships in Latin America, the Gallagher Foundation launched our Mexican program in 2004. Mexico met all of our criteria for selecting a country and the warm, welcoming culture seemed like the right place to build a community of scholars. From the start, our scholar community in Mexico welcomes our newest selected scholars right when they arrive on campus.
In Mexico, all of our scholars attend Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey campus. Inspired by MIT, ITESM orients towards technology and has state of the art facilities. To learn more about ITESM, visit their website: https://tec.mx/es
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Brenda Verónica Jiménez Torres
Country Director
Brenda Jiménez Torres became director of the Mexico program in 2008. Prior to joining the Gallagher Foundation, Brenda graduated from Tecnológico de Monterrey. Following graduation from University, Brenda served as an Organizational Development Executive at Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma. Additionally, she founded a Community Service Office for all campuses in Monterrey Tec, and served as the Training Coordinator of Student Affairs with the University.
In parallel with the Gallagher Foundation, Brenda has served as an Institutional Effectiveness Director for high school campuses of Monterrey Tec, as a Student Affairs Director, an Administrative Director, a Career Center Director, GERZA Experiential Training Programs Coordinator, and an Independent consultant in education and training programs.
Brenda enjoys learning from the Gallagher Scholars. She thrives in helping them with whatever they need to live joyful lives, sharing time with them in a positive and constructive way.
Brenda has been married since 2000 to a great man from Chihuahua, Mexico, Jaime Niels Olivas Rubio. Brenda and Jaime have three children, two alive (Julieta Isabel born in 2003 and Jaime Alejandro in 2006) and one passed away who is waiting for her in heaven. Her children inspire her to treat the scholars the best she can. From her origins to the family that she has formed, she is grateful to be a believer and practitioner of Catholicism, to love and to respect every life expression, diversity and individualism with social and community awareness.
In her free time, Brenda enjoys continuing to learn. She is currently in her eighth year of spiritual exercises with the Jesuits, dedicating time to reading and meditation. She has completed two triathlons and played for 10 years on a mothers’ soccer team. She enjoys running, rowing or kayaking, spending time in nature, and being with her family.
She also collaborates with the Treviño Elizondo Foundation, a local foundation that supports education in the state of Nuevo León by providing scholarships to teachers in the public education system. She recently joined the Women in Technical Careers program at CAINTRA Nuevo León as a training consultant.
